The Anti-Family
...encouraging a two-parent model. They make any other option out of the question. Send your thoughts to [email protected] Teen Mom does not go into these developments—they are outside the scope...
I ♥ Ⓐ
...too easily suspend our disbelief that a company like Google can follow its "don't be evil" dictum despite being owned by Wall Street and rented to the NSA. Neoliberalism finds...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...cool voice, the narrating voice, the dispassionate commentator, even as it invites a riot or speaks over the images of one. It acknowledges the effects of what it shows and...
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Sex in Public
...college boyfriend, and then returned to writing with a popular and sometimes controversial dating column for The New York Post, where she worked until moving to website xoJane.com this fall....
Beauty Blogosphere 5.25.12
...it's being treated as something with potential instead of something already available. The singularity just may be cosmetized. Bad girls go everywhere: xoJane.com beauty editor Cat Marnell in a Vice...
Yasssss, Kween!
...own face. He describes himself as a “Holy Ghost bowlegged ethnic power bottom with a sensible community college AA in HPV, weaving and gay wizardry #lonelyoldbottom #ihavenolife.” But She Has...
Police Mortality
...last yawn before its current hibernation. Instead, they’ve developed into a feature film: Police Mortality, by the anonymous guerrilla cinema collective Anti-Banality. Combing through nearly 200 cop-centric films, the group...
Creative Tyranny
...other similar ones with an admirable clarity that invites debate. In these pieces, Davis, a Marxist art critic and executive editor of Artinfo.com, shows little overt interest in policing the...
United States v. Scott Daniel Warren
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Not All Nerds
...nerd persecution ends. One can be forgiven for finding the comparison of “nerd persecution” to the oppression of black Americans more than a bit glib. But for the filmmakers, it...
The Secret Shopper
...to counter the frowns of the surly stock boy. Witness claims made by mystery-shopper providers, such as this one from Customer Feedback LLC: “96% of dissatisfied customers do not complain...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
Un(der)known Writers: Gary Fisher
...Excerpted and submitted by Zoe Sharpe. Thanks Zoe! If you have excerpts from writers you think are criminally un(der)known and we should highlight, you can send them to [email protected]...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!
...the band skidded to a halt twelve minutes into the set. The singer, Cal, attempted a bit of bravado to counter the booing: “I love it when you talk dirty!”...